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Self-promotion and celebrity may not bring down Western civilization, though they have harmed writers with considerably more to show and say than Janowitz and other young bright lights of the moment. F. Scott Fitzgerald paid the price of fame, but, says the critic and memoirist Alfred Kazin, "he wanted to be the best. I don't hear anyone talking of being the best today. Books are now made as movies are. There is no belief that a book has a long life. Writers have abandoned the idea of making a masterpiece. Now they are Hollywood venture capitalists and accomplices...
...year by such respected but noncommercial authors as Essayist Guy Davenport, Poet Donald Hall and Novelist Gilbert Sorrentino. The company debt increased to $500,000. Still, the house made a virtue of its liability. For one thing, it never insisted on exclusivity. M.F.K. Fisher, the cooking authority and memoirist, was able to publish her new works with Knopf as long as North Point controlled the reprint rights. That way, Turnbull decided, Fisher had "both a husband and a lover." Writers and agents were assured that "our small size permits very personal attention. We take our authors' calls collect...
...seem only to prolong the sense of contest. Sons of famous men find the scorekeeping particularly onerous: whatever the offspring's achievements, both generations are likely to suspect that the father's glory enhanced them. That psychic battleground is toured by Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic of The New Yorker, yet seemingly fated to be known always as the son of the celebrated '20s novelist Michael Arlen (The Green Hat). Say Goodbye to Sam is told in the first person, and much of its detail is so close to Arlen...
...Probably we'll live to see machines do it." But that was merely Noël the singer. There was also Noël the playwright, Noël the actor, Noël the director, Noël the short-story writer, Noël the memoirist and, at the end, Sir Noël, knight of the British Empire. Yet of all his roles, Coward is likely to be remembered best as the songwriter with a taste for the bittersweet. Like Porter, he shied from passionate expression, sometimes in the belief that love, like moonlight, was "cruelly...
DIED. Helen Lawrenson, 74, saucy, acerbic journalist and memoirist (Stranger at the Party; Whistling Girl), best known for her notorious 1936 article in Esquire magazine, "Latins Are Lousy Lovers"; of an apparent heart attack; in New York City...